• Midgut Genes Knockdown by Oral dsRNA Administration Produces a Lethal Effect on Cotton Boll Weevil 

      Salvador, Ricardo; Niz, José María; Nakaya, Pablo Angel; Pedarros, Analía Soledad; Hopp, Horacio Esteban (Springer, 2021-02)
      The “cotton boll weevil” (Anthonomus grandis Boheman) is a key pest in America whose larval stage develops within the cotton flower bud. During its development, the larva uses the flower bud as food and as a shelter from ...
    • RNAi Expression in Cotton for Control of Herbivorous Insects 

      Salvador, Ricardo; Maskin, Laura; Niz, José María; Turica, Mariana Daniela; Pedarros, Analía Soledad; Hopp, Horacio Esteban; Lewi, Dalia Marcela (Springer, 2022)
      Cultivated cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is heavily attacked by various species of insects worldwide and breeding of new varieties resistant to pests is still a hard battle to win. RNAi technology is an important reverse ...
    • Susceptibility of agricultural pests of regional importance in South America to a Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ia protein 

      Berretta, Marcelo Facundo; Pedarros, Analía Soledad; Sauka, Diego Hernan; Perez, Melisa Paula; Onco, Maria Ines; Benintende, Graciela Beatriz (Elsevier, 2020-05)
      Bacillus thuringiensis toxins of the Cry1I class have dual specificity for insects in the orders Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. We assessed the toxicity of a Cry1Ia protein from an Argentinian B. thuringiensis strain against ...
    • Utilización regional de baculovirus en el control de plagas hortícolas 

      Salvador, Ricardo; Niz, José María; Pedarros, Analía Soledad; Quintana, Graciela Mabel (Ediciones INTA, 2021-12)
      Los baculovirus son patógenos aislados de insectos, principalmente del orden Lepidoptera. Se caracterizan por su alta especificidad, pues poseen un espectro de hospedadores reducido, y por ser inocuos para artrópodos ...